Monday, March 20, 2017

Vernal Equinox (Spring) March 20, 2017 Ridley's Believe It Or Not Great American Meat Out

Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For March 20 .2017 On the first day
of spring which symbolizes equality and balance, the partisan fireworks on
Capital Hill were extensive this morning on the issue of Russian election
interference, the unmasking of Flynn’s name to the public, Obama’s involvement
in wiretapping of Trump Tower, the existence of or nonexistence of Trump campaign
collusion with Russians and where the FBI stands in its investigations; through
all the smoke whether there is any fire or not watching the Blue members and
their questions is is clear to this observer that they are still in denial mode
that the reason of loss was not a failed candidate, a failed campaign, or lack
of message that the American workers wanted to hear but delusion of the
Russians colluding with Trump’s campaign to snatch her defeat from the jaws of
victory; confirmation hearings began on Judge Gorsuch and the snitty tit for tat
that should be beneath the dignity of a senator was apparent as Blues were in a
first class snit that the Reds did not hold hearings on Obama’s selection in
the waning months of the election campaign (Blues are revealing because of the
cataracts of bias they are incapable of seeing a way to find common ground on
the issues that really concern Americans like jobs, safety, tax cuts,
regulatory relief, health care and border security and should be thrown out of
office in droves in 2016); Trump budget will significantly cut contributions to
foreign aid and the UN but with the UN Human Rights Council wanting to issue a
report condemning Israel for apartheid (growing calls to trim our contribution
further); in an example that ICE is serious now about illegal immigration and
that illegals have difficulty assimilating into our culture, ICE raided an
abandoned building in Detroit, found 100 birds equipped for cockfighting which
is illegal, and of the 86 people on the premises, 50 were detained for illegal
immigration; almost like a stuck record, the carnage in Chicago
continues unabated with total shootings in 2017 through March 19 increasing to
648 and the death toll stuck at 118 (God help those poor minorities being shot
mostly by minorities when the weather gets warmer and the shooters’ aim gets
really better and there is more daylight to find and shoot victims) and yet
nothing, absolutely nothing, appears to be occurring to address this blight on
blacks and minorities which is what racism from a black mayor really looks like.

As always, I hope you enjoy
today’s holidays and observances, another music link to the Beatles, factoids
of interest for this day in history, a relevant quote from Peter Drucker, while
hoping that you or your children will not be the subject of zabernism,secure
in the knowledge that if you want to find a gift for any memorable events
like birthdays, weddings, or anniversaries, you know that the Alaskanpoet
can provide you with a unique customized poem at a great
price tailored to the event and the recipient. You need only contact me
for details.

1. Great American Meat
Out—celebrating to the joy of farm animals and commercial species of
fish since 1985 the pledge by consumers to forego meat on this day as we
probably eat far too much of it which saddles us with a host of medical problems.

2. Native HIV/AIDS Awareness Day—promoting
awareness of the safeguards to follow to prevent exposure to the HIV virus among
Native Americans and Alaska Indians and the need to test for the presence of
the virus as 20% infected do not know they have it.

3. 1965 Number One Song—celebrating the number one song in 1965 on a surprisingly short run of 2 weeks in that position “Eight
Days a Week” by the Beatles. Here is a recording of the group performing
the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZzEvqDQfIA If they had been carrying briefcases they
would have looked like four bankers or lawyers off to work.

4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “zabernism” which means the misuse of
military authority, aggression or bullying which is something we all can agree
on should be avoided like the plague.

5. One Less Lawyer Has Made
the World a Better Place—celebrating the birthday
on this day in 1853 of Frederick W. Taylor who had intended to follow his
father’s footsteps and become a lawyer but instead of going to Harvard apprenticed
himself out in a machine shop and went on to become known as the “Father of
Productivity.” Higher productivity means lower costs to consumers and higher
wages for workers—a good thing, actually a great thing.

On this day
in:

a. 1815 after escaping from imprisonment on the island of Elba,
Napoleon entered Paris with an army of 140,000 regulars quickly swelled by another
200,000 volunteers to begin his 100 days rule which came to end at the Battle
of Waterloo and his subsequent exile to the barren island of St. Helena.

b. 1852 Harriet Beecher Stowe published the epic Uncle Tom’s Cabin which galvanized the
abolitionist movement.
c. 1952 a peace treaty with Japan formally bringing an end to the hostilities
with the United States was ratified by the U.S. Senate.

d. 1985 in a blow for gender equality Libby Riddles became the first
woman to win the Iditarod, the Last Great Race on Earth.

e. 2003 in the early morning hours ground forces from the U.S. and
three other nations justified by Iraqi possession of weapons of mass destruction that did exist
began the invasion of Iraq without an exit plan or a workable plan on how Iraq
was to be governed which was further compounded by Obama’s complete withdrawal
of all forces on December 18, 2011 which led to the vacuum that allowed ISIS to
take over huge chunks of the country and parts of Syria.

Observations on the pioneering work of Frederick W. Taylor: “Frederick W. Taylor was
the first man in recorded history who deemed work deserving of systematic
observation and study. On Taylor's 'scientific management' rests, above all,
the tremendous surge of affluence in the last seventy-five years which has
lifted the working masses in the developed countries well above any level
recorded before, even for the well-to-do. Taylor, though the Isaac Newton (or
perhaps the Archimedes) of the science of work, laid only first foundations,
however. Not much has been added to them since – even though he has been dead
all of sixty years.” Peter DruckerPlease enjoy thepoems on events
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follow my blogs. Always good, incisive and entertaining poems on my blogs—click
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History, poems to inspire, touch, emote, elate and enjoy and poems on
breaking news items of importance or go to Ridley's Believe It Or Notfor just This Day
in History.

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